CT 53, 945 (P314354)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 945 |
|---|---|
| ID | P314354 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Letter |
| Find spot | Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) |
| Coordinates | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
English translation
By ORACC project saao/saa10 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:15] o 1'1'– | [Concerning ... about which the king wrote]: "What (month) do you h[ave wh]en it became vis[ible]?" — [it appeared] in the month Adar (XII). And as to what was s[aid to the king]: "[It is visible] in the constellation Ar[ies]" — Aries will app[ear] in the east [either] tomorrow or the day af[ter tomorrow]. It is not Mercury. (Mercury) itself is visible [as evening star]. |
Transliteration (ATF)
From Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC default); per-file JSON license fields say: This data is released under the CC0 license (133618)
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| o | ||
| 1' | [ina] E₂ in-na-⸢mir⸣-[u-ni] | |
| 2' | mi-i-nu ⸢tu₂-ka⸣-[la] | |
| 3' | ina {iti}ŠE [it-ta-mar] | |
| 4' | u₃ ša iq-[bu-u-ni a-na LUGAL] | |
| 5' | ⸢ma⸣-a ina {mul}{lu₂}⸢HUN⸣.[GA₂ IGI-mar] | |
| b.e. | ||
| 6' | {⸢mul⸣}{lu₂}HUN.GA₂ [o] | |
| 7' | [šum₂-mu] ina ši-a-⸢ri⸣ | |
| 8' | [šum₂]-mu ina li-[di-iš] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ina {d}UTU.E₃ {d}UTU.E₃ in-⸢nam⸣-[mar] | |
| 2 | la-a {d}GUD.UD [šu-u₂-tu₂] | |
| 3 | u₃ šu-⸢tu₂⸣ [ina {d}UTU.ŠU₂.A] {d}UTU.ŠU₂.A] | |
| 4 | in-nam-⸢mar⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 5 | ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x] | |
Sources & licences
- Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched) · Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), https://cdli.earth/ ; cite CDLI and the P-number
- Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC default); per-file JSON license fields say: This data is released under the CC0 license (133618) · ORACC project editions, https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ ; cite the individual project (see texts.extra_json.project)
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